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Search for phrases containing one or more words"buffy coat""Chronic hepatitis""Malignant neoplasm". Phrases should be surrounded in quotes.

Single character wildcard searches with ?. To search for text or test you can do te?t. Multiple character wildcard searches with *. To search for test or tests or tester you can do test*.

A more targeted search is of the form field:value where you have to type in the exact field name followed by : and value. The fields available to search are biobankName, sampleCollectionName, materialType, container, storageTemperature, sampledTime, anatomicalPartOntology, anatomicalPartOntologyVersion, anatomicalPartOntologyCode, anatomicalPartOntologyDescription, anatomicalPartFreeText, sex, ageLow, ageHigh, ageUnit, diseaseOntology, diseaseOntologyVersion, diseaseOntologyCode, diseaseOntologyDescription, diseaseFreeText, countryOfOrigin.

Search for phrase "1.5 ml tube" in the container field ANDterm "female" in the sex field container:"1.5 ml tube" AND sex:female.

Also possible to group queries by including them inside parentheses. (anatomicalPartFreeText:arm AND diseaseOntologyVersion:ICD10) OR sampledTime:2008.

Search for "Hepatic fibrosis" but not "Alcoholic cirrhosis". "Hepatic fibrosis" NOT "Alcoholic cirrhosis". Same semantics with "Hepatic fibrosis" -"Alcoholic cirrhosis". The + symbol requires a term or phrase must be present. To get the matches that must contain C22.0 and may contain plasma, +C22.0 plasma.

Also can be used with the field:value. Search for the terminternational but not organization in the field biobankName. biobankName:international -biobankName:organization. Similary the biobankName must contain "iarc" or materialType must cotain "buffy coat"+biobankName:"iarc" +materialType:"buffy coat"

Inclusive Range queries with square brackets [ ]. Find the matches where sampledTime are between 2002-01-03 and 2008-12-31, inclusive. sampledTime:[20020103000000 TO 20081231000000].

Exclusive Range queries with curly brackets { }. Find the matches where biobankName are between Deutsche and Karolinska but not including Deutsche and Karolinska. biobankName:{Deutsche TO Karolinska}.